different between skyscrapers vs apartment
skyscrapers
English
Noun
skyscrapers
- plural of skyscraper
skyscrapers From the web:
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- what skyscrapers are being built in london
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apartment
English
Alternative forms
- APT (The US Postal Service prefers this variant)
- apt.
Etymology
From French appartement, from Italian appartamento, from Spanish apartamiento (“separation, seclusion”). See apart.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??p??t.m?nt/
- (General American) enPR: ?-pärt'm?nt, IPA(key): /??p??t.m?nt/
Noun
apartment (plural apartments)
- (chiefly Canada, US) A complete domicile occupying only part of a building, especially one for rent; a flat.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- I am Jonathan. I am in apartment B4. — I am in apartment C2.
- I am Jonathan. I am in apartment B4. — I am in apartment C2.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- (archaic) A suite of rooms within a domicile, designated for a specific person or persons and including a bedroom.
- By this contrivance I got into the inmost court; and, lying down upon my side, I applied my face to the windows of the middle stories, which were left open on purpose, and discovered the most splendid apartments that can be imagined. There I saw the empress and the young princes in their several lodgings, with their chief attendants about them.
- (obsolete) A division of an enclosure that is separate from others; a compartment
- 1883 April 23, Slawson v. Grand Street R. Co., 107 U.S. 649, 2 S.Ct. 663, 664,
- The specification described the ordinary fare-box used in street cars and omnibuses, consisting of two apartments, the one directly above the other.... [T]he passenger deposited his fare in an aperture in the top of the upper apartment. It fell upon and was arrested by a movable platform.... This platform turned on an axis acted on by a lever. When turned, the fare fell into the lower apartment, which was a receptacle for holding the fares accumulated....
- 1883 April 23, Slawson v. Grand Street R. Co., 107 U.S. 649, 2 S.Ct. 663, 664,
- (computing, COM) A conceptual space used for separation in the threading architecture. Objects in one apartment cannot directly access those in another, but must use a proxy.
Synonyms
- (domicile occupying part of a building): flat (UK); unit; (compare with) condominium
Derived terms
- apartment building
- apartment block
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ??????? (ap?tomento)
- ? Thai: ??????????? (à-páat-mén)
Translations
See also
- tenement
Malay
Noun
apartment (plural apartment-apartment, informal 1st possessive apartmentku, impolite 2nd possessive apartmentmu, 3rd possessive apartmentnya)
- apartment
apartment From the web:
- what apartments
- what apartment can i afford
- what apartments am i at
- what apartments take section 8
- what apartments accept evictions
- what apartments are near me
- what apartments accept felons
- what apartments accept housing vouchers
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